Accenture to cut more ex-Symbian staff in Finland

May 09, 2012|Reuters

HELSINKI, May 9 (Reuters) - IT services supplier Accenture said it started lay-off talks in Finland aimed atcutting 250 more workers, former developers of Nokia's Symbian software who joined the company last year.

Nokia transferred the staff and development work toAccenture last year after it overhauled its smartphone strategyand adopted Microsoft software.

Accenture said 320 Symbian developers had already acceptedvoluntary lay-off packages earlier this year. More than 500 ofthe 1,200 staff it took over from Nokia have moved to otheroperations such as coding for Microsoft's Windows Phoneplatform.